we are old ladies.

Wanna know what we've done in Germany so far?
Eat.
And sleep.
And eat and sleep.
Annnnd eat and sleep. Just saying, it's a tough life.

No but seriously, all we've done since we got here is nothing. We get up around 8:30am and eat breakfast, and then we lay around and drink coffee or tea, maybe we'll read a book or mess around on the computer or catch up on our writing. Around 1:30pm it's lunch, but lunch is really dinner here, meaning the biggest meal of the day. So we eat again. Potatoes and fish and beet salad and carrots and meatballs and sausage and flöte and dill sauce and green salad and...everything. At 3pm is coffee, always accompanied by cake, cookies, marzipan, chocolate, or candies, and sometimes on special days (and it's always a special day when we're here) all of the above. Afterwards the mums send us downstairs to rest, because oh, such a difficult day we've had. So then we'll nap on the couch or listen to some tuuunes, and if we're feeling really ambitious we might even get out for a stroll before dinner. Yes, dinner. Dinner comes between 7&9pm and consists of the best homemade bread you've ever tasted, cheese of all sorts, cold meats, and salad. Or giant sandwiches. Or deep-dish-melt-in-your-mouth pizza. Considering we ate dry baguettes for dinner in Paris, I'd say we're nothing short of spoiled rotten.

Now this week we happen to be sick, the both of us coughing and sneezing and needing extra rest. Laziness is a luxury. I'd like to tell you it'd be much different if we were healthy, nobody would be waiting on us hand and foot, cooking all our snacks and meals or letting us get away with doing absolutely nothing. I'd like to say it'd be different. I just don't like to lie.

Plön has been a blessing and a pleasure after two weeks of hilarious independence. We conquered Galway, Cork, Cobh, Dublin and Paris all on our own, hardly resting, always laughing, and watching eachothers' backs. Ashley and I make a great travel team. We've met amazing people from all over the world along the way and there is so much more to come. Tomorrow we leave Plön for Berlin, where we'll stay with my friend Sarah for the weekend and Tuesday or Wednesday we'll catch up with my cousin Kai, who also lives in Berlin. Then on to Prague!

Here's to being at home away from home.
stay posted!
sammy k.